Erebus : one ship, two epic voyages, and the greatest naval mystery of all time /
Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation, a route throug...
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Vancouver :
Greystone Books,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Made in Wales
- Magnetic north
- Magnetic south
- Far-off shores
- "Our southern home"
- "Farther south than any (known) human being has been"
- Dancing with the captains
- "Pilgrims of the ocean"
- "Such a wretched place as this you never saw"
- "Three years from Gillingham"
- Homeward bound
- "So little now remains to be done"
- North by north-west
- No signal
- The truth
- Life and death
- The Inuit story
- Resurrection.